Month: February 2014

Catholic priest and exile Olaus Magnus is perhaps best known for his chronicle of medieval life in Scandinavia, presented in ...

Like the Bible, the Quran is meant to be the direct word of God (or Allah), a perfect text delivered ...

How language has formed and evolved over the years has long been of interest to scholars across the centuries. Herodotus ...

The 335-Year War is the longest war in history. It was fought---technically---between the Netherlands and England's Isles of Scilly, although ...

Aluminum is one of the three most common elements found within the Earth’s crust. However, until relatively recently, extracting aluminum ...

We have a very distinct image of the Pilgrims who established the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Simple black-and-white ...

Gay marriage has long been a controversial topic, but it wasn't always that way. Textual evidence from between the 8th ...

Oymyakon, Russia has the dubious distinction of being the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Only a few hundred miles from ...

In 2012, astronomers studying the warm gases surrounding a newly formed star, IRAS 16293-2422, discovered something strangely familiar: sugar. More ...

In the early 1800s, a Scot named Gregor MacGregor appealed to the brave, adventurous side of his people in an ...

He was known by the name Pietro Psaier. He was a contemporary of some of the greatest pop artists to ...

America's only kingdom was formed on June 8, 1850, when Mormon convert and leader James Strang declared Michigan's Beaver Island ...

The aptly named Execution Rocks is the site of a lighthouse off the western end of Long Island Sound. Unproven ...

Leo Tolstoy was a literary giant known for epic works such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also ...

St. Patrick has long been the patron saint of the Irish, said to have driven all the snakes out of ...

Try and picture a successful revolution. What do you see? Most likely it is huge mobs of the population taking ...

In the 1980s, the Internet as we know it didn't exist, but the French had already come up with a ...

North America isn't known for its giant mammals. However, some scientists want to stock its shores with African creatures like ...

Use of and the threat of chemical agents used in modern warfare have sent governments worldwide scrambling for a way ...

Queen Victoria is one of the longest-reigning monarchs of the British Empire, and one that has always been a figurehead ...

In the early 1800s in New England, panic was already rife from the apparent infestation of witches in the town ...